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The Wedge Block Foundation Ica at a glance

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The Wedge Block Foundation Ica

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$246k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$333kArts & Culture$135kEnvironment$115kHuman Services$95kRecreation & Sports$70kCivil Rights$45kYouth Development$30kCommunity Improvement$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $241k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RESOURCE CLEVELAND$20,000
COURAGE TO CAREGIVERS$15,000
JOURNEY CENTER FOR SAFETY AND HEALING$15,000
HIRAM HOUSE CAMP$15,000
FIELDSTONE FARM THERAPEUTIC RIDING CTR$15,000
NAMI GREATER CLEVELAND$15,000
THE LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER CLE$15,000
P A L S FOR HEALING$11,000
SHAKER HISTORICAL SOCIETY$10,000
NAALEH CLEVELAND INC$10,000
GETTING TO WE$10,000
NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES$10,000
B RILEY SOBER HOUSE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
CENTER FOR ARTS - INSPIRED LEARNING$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LIGHT AFTER LOSS: $5k → 13%BENJAMIN ROSE INSTITUTE ON AGING: $10k → 17%RESOURCE CLEVELAND: $20k → 17%THE REFUGEE RESPONSE: $5k → 17%GENDERSPHERE: $5k → 17%CORNERTONE OF HOPE: $15k → 17%CORNERTONE OF HOPE: $15k → 17%GETTING TO WE: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$738k · 18 repeat orgs$125k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
4

Total granted

$738k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+56%

Still filing today

89%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CT
    COURAGE TO CAREGIVERS INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $65k · revenue +161%
  • FF
    FIELDSTONE FARM THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER
    3× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +19%
  • LG
    LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER
    3× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +93%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • BR
    BENJAMIN ROSE INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -37%
  • LA
    Light After Lossgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +56%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Achievement Centers for Children

Our mission is to empower children and adults with disabilities and (continued on schedule o) their families to achieve their greatest potential through holistic and family-focused services.

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2
Pathway Caring for Children

Our mission is to help children and families realize the possibilities of their lives through foster care, adoption, and mental health. we serve over 1,700 children and families in 14 northeast ohio counties.

Health
3
Childsafe Colorado Inc

Mission: our mission is to break the cycle and heal the childhood trauma resulting from abuse and neglect with specialized treatment, education and community outreach. we believe in a comprehensive, community-based approach to the problem…

Crime & Legal
4
Lead Ohio

At lead ohio our goal is to make a difference in communities across ohio by recruiting, training, supporting and empowering progressive leaders in all regions of the state.

Education
5
Childrens Center

The mission of childrens center is to support and medically assess children who are suspected victims of abuse or neglect.

Crime & Legal
6
Connecting for Kids of Westlake Oh

Connecting for kids is a local nonprofit organization with a mission to provide resources, support and community to families in northeast ohio who have concerns about their child. the organization serve all families, including those…

Youth Development
7
Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services

To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.

Health
8
Cleveland Center for Arts and Technology

Mission: for all of our students to achieve optimal health by integrating mental and physical well-being and life purpose. values: we will improve the lives of our students and our community. we will fight inherently inequitable systems.…

Arts & Culture
9
Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc

EMPOWERING LGBT PEOPLE, BUILDING STRONG COMMUNITY. NEW YORK CITY'S LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, & TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER EMPOWERS PEOPLE TO LEAD HEALTHY, SUCCESSFUL LIVES. The Center celebrates our community and advocates for justice and…

Human Services
10
Bloom Art and Integrated Therapies Inc

Focused on encouraging a creative, healthy, and strong community. the practitioners at bloom integrate counseling and art therapy to serve the community and provide access to art for healing, growth, regulation, and expression. the primary…

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11
Cleveland Leadership Center

The mission of cleveland leadership center (the organization) is to build a continuum of civic leaders committed to our community's excellence by serving as a catalyst for civic engagement. the organization achieves its mission by…

Education
12
The Collaborative to End Human Trafficking

The mission of the collaborative is to lead, empower and connect our community to eradicate human trafficking.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Resource Cleveland; the most unlike its peers is Naaleh Cleveland Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
16/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COURAGE TO CAREGIVERS INC: $65,000 · HealthCOURAGE TO CAREGIVERS INCNAMI-GREATER CLEVELAND: $36,000 · HealthNAMI-GREATER CLEVELANDPALS FOR HEALING: $32,000 · HealthPALS FOR HEALINGNaaleh Cleveland Inc: $30,000 · HealthNaaleh Cleveland IncLIFEACT: $25,000 · HealthLIFEACTB RILEY SOBER HOUSE: $10,000 · HealthCANOPY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $10,000 · HealthAbortion Fund of Ohio: $10,000 · HealthHIRAM HOUSE CAMP: $70,000 · OtherHIRAM HOUSE CAMPFIELDSTONE FARM THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $45,000 · OtherFIELDSTONE FARM THERAPEUTIC RIDING…ART THERAPY STUDIO: $40,000 · OtherART THERAPY STUDIOLOVE YOUR BRAIN INC: $20,000 · OtherLOVE YOUR BRAIN INCIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherLAKE COUNTY FREE CLINIC INC: $10,000 · OtherCOLORS PLUS: $25,000 · OtherCOLORS PLUSJOURNEY CENTER FOR SAFETY AND HEALING: $15,000 · OtherJOURNEY CENTER FOR SAFETY AND HEAL…HOLA OHIO: $10,000 · Other+1 more: $5,000 · OtherSHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES: $100,000 · EnvironmentSHAKER LAKES RE…WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $15,000 · EnvironmentWESTERN RESERVE…SHAKER HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $55,000 · Arts & CultureSHAKER HIST…THE CLEVELAND MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT: $35,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CLEVELA…CORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONE…RESOURCE CLEVELAND: $25,000 · Human ServicesRESOURCE CL…BENJAMIN ROSE INSTITUTE: $10,000 · Human ServicesBENJAMIN RO…GETTING TO WE: $10,000 · Human ServicesGETTING TO …Light After Loss: $5,000 · Human ServicesLight After…GENDERSPHERE: $5,000 · Human ServicesGENDERSPHER…LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER: $45,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR ARTS-INSPIRED LEARNING: $45,000 · Education
Health$218,000Other$265,000Environment$115,000Arts & Culture$90,000Human Services$85,000Civil Rights$45,000Education$45,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES: $100,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetCOURAGE TO CAREGIVERS INC: $65,000 over 6y, 9.6% of budgetSHAKER HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $55,000 over 6y, 8.8% of budgetFIELDSTONE FARM THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $45,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER: $45,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCENTER FOR ARTS-INSPIRED LEARNING: $45,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetART THERAPY STUDIO: $40,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetNAMI-GREATER CLEVELAND: $36,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT: $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPALS FOR HEALING: $32,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetNaaleh Cleveland Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRESOURCE CLEVELAND: $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLIFEACT: $25,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCOLORS PLUS: $25,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetJOURNEY CENTER FOR SAFETY AND HEALING: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE COUNTY FREE CLINIC INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOLA OHIO: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetB RILEY SOBER HOUSE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBENJAMIN ROSE INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANOPY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGETTING TO WE: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetAbortion Fund of Ohio: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLight After Loss: $5,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetGENDERSPHERE: $5,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetTWO FOUNDATION INC TWO CAFE & BOUTIQUE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Cleveland Foundat…The Char and Chuck Fo…Higley Fund of the Cl…The George Gund Found…Woodruff FoundationJewish Federation of …Dominion Energy Chari…The Swagelok Foundati…Three Arches Foundati…Treu Mart FundEmma R Fox Char Trust…The Andrews Foundation
The Cleveland FoundationOH43.7× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Woodruff Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · Three Arches Foundation · Treu Mart Fund · Emma R Fox Char Trust Mut Fds · The Andrews Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Wedge Block Foundation Ica funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wedge Block Foundation Ica. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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